
Article 1 

1. Member States shall suspend the importation from Russia of live birds other than poultry as defined in Article 1, third indent, of Decision 2000/666/EC, including birds accompanying their owners (pet birds).
2. Member States shall suspend the importation from Russia of unprocessed feathers and parts of feathers from the regions listed in Annex I.
3. Member States shall authorise the importation of unprocessed feathers and parts of feathers from those regions in Russia not listed in Annex I, provided that they are accompanied by a health certificate in accordance with the model set out in Annex II.
4. Member States shall ensure that, for the importation of processed feathers or parts of feathers from Russia, a commercial document stating that the processed feathers or parts thereof have been treated with a steam current or by some other method ensuring that no pathogens are transmitted accompany the consignment.However, that commercial documents shall not be required for processed decorative feathers, processed feathers carried by travellers for their private use or consignments of processed feathers sent to private individuals for non-industrial purposes.
Article 2 
The Member States shall amend the measures they apply to imports so as to bring them into compliance with this Decision and they shall give immediate appropriate publicity to the measures adopted. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
Article 3 
This Decision shall apply from 1 October 2005 to 31 March 2006.
Article 4 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
ANNEX I
1. 
Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation: Amur Oblast, Chukotka Autonomous District, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Koryakia Autonomous District, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Sakhalin Oblast.

2. 
Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation: Aga Buryatia Autonomous District, Altai Republic, Altai Krai, Buryatia Republic, Chita Oblast, Evenkia Autonomous District, Irkutsk Oblast, Kemerovo Oblast, Khakassia Republic, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast, Omsk Oblast, Taymyria Autonomous District, Tomsk Oblast, Tuva Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia Autonomous District.

3. 
Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation: Chelyabinsk Oblast, Khantia-Mansia Autonomous District, Kurgan Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast, Yamalia Autonomous District.

4. 
Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation: Belgorod Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Ivanovo Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Moscow (federal city), Moscow Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Tula Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Voronezh Oblast.

5. 
Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation: Adygeya Republic, Astrakhan Oblast, Chechnya Republic, Dagestan Republic, Ingushetia Republic, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, Kalmykia Republic, Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, Krasnodar Krai, North Ossetia-Alania Republic, Stavropol Krai, Rostov Oblast, Volgograd Oblast.

6. 
Includes the following Subjects of the Russian Federation: Bashkortostan Republic, Chuvashia Republic, Kirov Oblast, Mari El Republic, Mordovia Republic, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Penza Oblast, Perm Oblast, Permyakia Autonomous District, Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Tatarstan Republic, Udmurtia Republic, Ulyanovsk Oblast.

ANNEX II (a) Veterinary certificates shall be issued by Russia using the model below. They shall contain, in the order appearing in the model, the attestations that are required for any third/non-member country and, where applicable, those additional health requirements required for the exporting third/non-member country or part thereof.
 (b) A separate, single certificate must be presented for each consignment of the commodity concerned, exported to the same destination from Russia and transported in the same railway wagon, lorry, aircraft or ship.
 (c) The original of the certificate shall consist of a single page printed on both sides or, where more text is required, such that all the pages form a whole and cannot be subdivided.
 (d) The certificate shall be drawn up in at least one official language of the EU Member State where the border inspection takes place and in one official language of the EU Member State of destination. However, those Member States may allow another Community language to appear in place of their own, accompanied, if necessary, by an official translation.
 (e) Where additional pages are attached to the certificate for the purposes of identifying the items making up the consignment, such additional pages shall also be considered to form part of the original of the certificate, provided the signature and stamp of the certifying official veterinarian appear on each page.
 (f) Where the certificate, including any additional pages as provided for in (e), comprises more than one page, each page shall be numbered on the pattern ‘–x(page number) of y(total number of pages)–’ on the bottom and shall bear the code number of the certificate allocated by the competent authority on the top.
 (g) 
The colour of the signature shall be different to that of the printing. The same rule shall apply to stamps other than embossed stamps or watermarks.
 (h) The original of the certificate must accompany the consignment as far as the EU border inspection post.
 (i) The certificate shall be valid for 10 days from the date of issue.




